Any hope for this open brain? (Pic)

Fountainhead · 11/17/2006, 04:15 PM

(NOTE: If the photo doesn't show, try a refresh. My FTP site stinks.)

This open brain isn't looking so hot. You can see the tissue loss, and he has some other stringy stuff coming off. Is there any chance an open brain in this condition can make it, or should I pull it now?

Bought at LFS last Sunday. Looked good for two days, fed it once, then it started to go bad.

Parameters:

Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates something less than 10
Temp 80
PH 8.1~8.2
SG -1.025
Lights 4x96 PC (2 x 10,000K + 2 x actinic)

All other corals look great.

Thoughts?

Snakebyt · 11/17/2006, 04:39 PM

i have seen worse ones make a comeback

dodgersfan25 · 11/17/2006, 05:05 PM

yeah, theres still some life kickin in there

Blazer88 · 11/17/2006, 05:12 PM

Mine was bleached white when I got it. Happy as can be now; you have hope.

DarthBaiter · 11/17/2006, 05:14 PM

I've seen worse make comebacks also.

Phyxius · 11/17/2006, 05:15 PM

I got a deal on a red colored one from a LFS that had a good size chunk out of the one side. I was hoping it would recover and it has as I heard if the tissue gets torn up it can be the start of the end. The tissue healed up and its slowly growing back out over the area it had receeded from. I feed it Mysis shrimp on a reg basis and its responded well.

Fountainhead · 11/17/2006, 06:25 PM

OK, I'll stick with it. Anything special I can do other than provide good water quality? I fed it on Monday and it ate. I tried feeding it again Thursday night but the food just sat there until a shrimp came by and snatched it. Maybe it wasn't hungry yet, or too stressed.

Phyxius · 11/17/2006, 07:02 PM

Fountainhead,
I found that waiting till later in the day when the lights go out it was easier to feed it. My MH`s go out and then my actinics run for about an hr. Its during this time its little sweepers come out and it engorges some and I can feed it quite a few mysis.
I`ve also put Selcon in with the mysis and soaked them for awhile. I really don't know how much is absorbed or even if the brain uses it in a beneficial way but it takes them...

Percula109 · 11/17/2006, 07:52 PM

It still looks like if its hanging in there, if your water parameters are perfect chances are high it will make a full recovery, good thing to do would be put on your attinics only if you can and let some food float in the water, when you see its feder tentacles coming out , turn all circulation off and grab a turkey paster and put some mysis shrimps near its mouth this should help it get better.

11/17/2006, 04:15 PM	#1
Fountainhead Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 566	Any hope for this open brain? (Pic) (NOTE: If the photo doesn't show, try a refresh. My FTP site stinks.) This open brain isn't looking so hot. You can see the tissue loss, and he has some other stringy stuff coming off. Is there any chance an open brain in this condition can make it, or should I pull it now? Bought at LFS last Sunday. Looked good for two days, fed it once, then it started to go bad. Parameters: Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates something less than 10 Temp 80 PH 8.1~8.2 SG -1.025 Lights 4x96 PC (2 x 10,000K + 2 x actinic) All other corals look great. Thoughts?

11/17/2006, 05:05 PM	#3
dodgersfan25 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Valencia (So Cal) Posts: 757	yeah, theres still some life kickin in there __________________ -rich Current Tank Info: 90 Gallon Mixed Reef

11/17/2006, 05:14 PM	#5
DarthBaiter Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 662	I've seen worse make comebacks also. __________________ "Fluke, I'm yo faddah, come join me on the DockSIde!" Current Tank Info: 90g reef display 30g sump, 75g display 10g sump, 30g cube display, 12g AP reef, 14g BC reef, and a 75g planted livebearer tank.

11/17/2006, 05:15 PM	#6
Phyxius Moving About Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: RTP NC Posts: 2,405	I got a deal on a red colored one from a LFS that had a good size chunk out of the one side. I was hoping it would recover and it has as I heard if the tissue gets torn up it can be the start of the end. The tissue healed up and its slowly growing back out over the area it had receeded from. I feed it Mysis shrimp on a reg basis and its responded well. __________________ -Mike I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. W. C. Fields Current Tank Info: JUST SOLD AND TOOK DOWN ALL 11/10---210g AGA, 80g sump, Tunze Streams. Tunze ATO,RK Elite Controller, RKII,Dart, GEO Calcium& Nielsen Kalk Reactors,GEO media reactor, Kaleini Rock, 3-250 watt 14k EVC , VHO..... 34g Solana and 60g cube

11/17/2006, 07:02 PM	#8
Phyxius Moving About Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: RTP NC Posts: 2,405	Fountainhead, I found that waiting till later in the day when the lights go out it was easier to feed it. My MH`s go out and then my actinics run for about an hr. Its during this time its little sweepers come out and it engorges some and I can feed it quite a few mysis. I`ve also put Selcon in with the mysis and soaked them for awhile. I really don't know how much is absorbed or even if the brain uses it in a beneficial way but it takes them... __________________ -Mike I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. W. C. Fields Current Tank Info: JUST SOLD AND TOOK DOWN ALL 11/10---210g AGA, 80g sump, Tunze Streams. Tunze ATO,RK Elite Controller, RKII,Dart, GEO Calcium& Nielsen Kalk Reactors,GEO media reactor, Kaleini Rock, 3-250 watt 14k EVC , VHO..... 34g Solana and 60g cube

11/17/2006, 04:39 PM	#2
Snakebyt Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Lubbock Tx Posts: 2,141	i have seen worse ones make a comeback

11/17/2006, 05:12 PM	#4
Blazer88 Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 2,415	Mine was bleached white when I got it. Happy as can be now; you have hope.

11/17/2006, 06:25 PM	#7
Fountainhead Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 566	OK, I'll stick with it. Anything special I can do other than provide good water quality? I fed it on Monday and it ate. I tried feeding it again Thursday night but the food just sat there until a shrimp came by and snatched it. Maybe it wasn't hungry yet, or too stressed.

11/17/2006, 07:52 PM	#9
Percula109 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Miami , fl Posts: 64	It still looks like if its hanging in there, if your water parameters are perfect chances are high it will make a full recovery, good thing to do would be put on your attinics only if you can and let some food float in the water, when you see its feder tentacles coming out , turn all circulation off and grab a turkey paster and put some mysis shrimps near its mouth this should help it get better.